Ali Velshi: Not Every Argument Has Two Sides - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

There are some issues that just don’t have two sides. What led to the second impeachment of the former President is one of those things. Exactly two weeks before we inaugurated a duly elected president, a violent mob ransacked Congress. A mob that was motivated by a President who had spent four years attacking facts and truth, ending with two months of election lies and hysteria. You will hear a lot about how this impeachment is dividing the country but, in the end, no matter your political persuasion – we all know what happened on January 6th. Aired on 1/24/21

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. On of my favorite lines from David Simon's brilliant tv series, The Wire:

A lie ain't a side of a story. It's just a lie.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Good one. And we've heard way too many of them as it is.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. No question about that.

Unfortunately, percieved media bias isn't based on fair & honest evaluation.

Say over the course of a week:

Source R says 9 lies and 1 factual statement

and

Source D says 1 half truth and 9.5 factual statements.

The media won't report that accurately. They can't, because if they do, they'll be printing something negative about Rs far more often than about Ds.

And this will be seen as unfair to Rs, especially because they will screech about it & accuse the media of "Liberal bias!" And many of the public will buy that nonsense.

This is one way Rs prevent the media from telling the truth about them. Propagandistic manipulation of reporting.

[mdbl]

8. absolutely true

like when Rand Paul kept getting asked if he would state the election wasn't stolen, he kept accusing the questioner of not listening to both sides of the story-this after it was affirmed by many different judges, courts and lawsuits that it wasn't stolen yet that moron still keeps claiming there is another side to that story. Someone needs to remove the bananas in his brain.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. Yes, though I'm not sure it is the bananas.

To a certain extent, he's bananas, true, like most of the Rs.

But, the main thing is, they've learned, or naturally know, propaganda techniques. What you described is one of them. We all, our journalists in particular, need training in how to best call out & deflect those techniques.

[Jarqui]

3. You mean Giuliani's "Truth isn't truth" isn't debatable? ...nt

[SheltieLover]

5. Truth wins!

Perhaps not in the United States of Extortion repuke senators' minds, but the whole w9rld knows.

Ty, Rhiannon!

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Ali Velshi has been at the top of his game this weekend!

[SheltieLover]

7. Awesome!

[Duppers]

10. K & R

[Gothmog]

11. From Marc Elias

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